[Wlug] core 2 duo extremely slow (solved, i think)

[brad]

Hi all, 
It seems that a BIOS downgrade solved the problem. I tried a few different
BIOS revisions, the newer the revision the worse the machine functioned,
strange.
thanks,
 - brad

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:22:54 -0400, Aaron Haviland <orion at parsed.net> wrote:
> brad wrote, on Aug 02, 2007 at 21:54 EDT:
>>
>> Hi All,
>> I recently got in a nice new 2.4GHz core 2 duo with a bunch of memory,
> 8GB.
>> I installed kubuntu i386 on it. To get use of the 8GB of memory i
>> recompiled the kernel to enable high memory support, a.k.a PAE. When i
>> booted the new kernel it saw all my memory, but it took 10-15 minutes to
>> boot. i checked dmesg and it didn't seem to report anything out of the
>> ordinary.
>>
>> Then, I thought that perhaps the 64bit version of kubuntu might be a
> better
>> option. I installed kubuntu 64bit. The install took two days because
> every
>> step was extremely slow. Once the install finished, i rebooted and it
> took
>> 10-15 to boot. I was seeing the same symptoms of the 64bit install as i
> was
>> with the 32bit install with PAE.
>>
>> I tried downloading the current kubuntu 64bit release as well as the
> beta
>> of the next release. I'm also trying Fedora Core 7 64bit as i type, but
>> that install is going just as slow. I hunted through the BIOS for any
>> suspicious settings. I removed all the hardware except for the CD-ROM
> (to
>> boot a live CD). I did searching through the interweb. All with no luck
> to
>> solving this problem.
>>
>> If anyone has any suggestions, they will be much appreciated.
>>
>> keep cool,
>>  - brad
> 
> A couple (possibly) good leads in this thread:
>
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/browse_frm/thread/830f835cc37dacb6/d9ef4d926c80149%23d9ef4d926c80149
> 
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